Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller.

Although remembered mostly for her audacious bestseller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein was a unique literary artist of the twentieth century who left a voluminous body of work, including novels, essays, poetry, and prose. Stymied--just once--by a case of writer's block, Stein forayed into the world of mystery fiction to rediscover her path to creativity. Combining elements of free association and interior monologue that earned her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, Stein drew from a summer's worth of mysterious events at her French country home for inspiration. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor is the brilliant result. A possible murder disrupts the peaceful setting when, in a nearby village, Madame Pernollet is found on the cement courtyard of her husband's hotel. Did she fall from a window above . . . or was she pushed? Was there someone who wanted the preoccupied woman out of the way? In a departure from the typical whodunit, with nary a detective to lead the way, Stein lays out a series of crimes and clues, enticing readers to come up with their own verdict on the baffling events of one unnatural summer.

"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

A powerfully compressed exploration of the meaning of memory, The Bellarosa Connection is a masterful novella from a writer whose new work of fiction is further testament to his acclaimed gifts in creativity.

Coronet British paperback, A collection of thirteen stunning stories by one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth century. Includes: The Hoop; The Price; A Matter of Size; The Hole in the Floor; General Hardy's Profession; Show Cause; Not with a Bang; The Talent of Harvey novelette; The Mind of God; UFO; Cephes 5; The Pragmatic Seed; The Egg.

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.

Liza Goldberg is twenty-five, Jewish, heterosexual--and unhappy. She is also a bulimic caught in a self-destructive cycle of alternately binging and starving herself. This novel tells of her discovering her lesbian identity, and of the people in her life, her first female lover, Anemone; Harvey, her gay roommate; and the nursery school kids from whom Liza sneaks peanut butter snacks.

"The Benefactor" is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, "The Benefactor" leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.

She was a legend in her own lifetime.Eva Duarte, the small-time actress and radio announcerwho turned Juan Peron from an ambitious soldier into the most charismatic leader Argentina had everknown.Peron was ambitious, and had used the ferment of World War Two to secure massive favour-and finance - with the Nazis. But it was Eva's magic, her flairfor publicity and her instinctforthe will of the people which brought his careerto its pinnacle.Together, Juan and Eva formed the most electric partnership in South America. Insatiably power- hungry and utterly ruthless, for a while the world was theirs, until the wheel of fortune began to turn again ...Ingrid Pitt and Tony Rudlin's sweeping novel of the Perons' rise and fall vividly recreates the drama and tragedy of the nation who fell under Eva s spell.

A friend of the British writer portrays Orwell's personality and examines the influence of personal experience on Orwell's novels

Traces a woman's search for identity through the painful labyrinth of sex, drugs, and prostitution in New York's Lower East Side

Essays analyze the concept of totalitarianism in George Orwell's novel, 1984, and examine the political issues raised by the book.

Essays analyze the concept of totalitarianism in George Orwell's novel, 1984, and examine the political issues raised by the book.

With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon "Dubin's Lives" (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" as Malamud's "best novel since "The Assistant," Possibly, it is the best he has written of all." Its protagonist is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize-winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he does: those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love--love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. "Dubin's Lives" is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage.

An anthology of selections from eight of Philip Roth's early novels, with a definitive version of The Breast and the previously uncollected story Novotny's Pain, alongside the essay-story Looking At Kafka.

In resolving the suicide of his friend, Philip Strayhorn explores the dividing line between good and evil in this fantasy novel, from the same author who wrote Sleeping in Flame, Bones of the Moon and Voice of our Shadow. He is the 1988 World Fantasy Award winner for short stories.

A world where "the family" stood above all else...where murder was a cure for treachery...where respectability could be purchased for vast sums of money...where love struggled to survive in a climate of corruption and violence...where memories of a penniless immigrant past still fired his consuming ambition...and vengeance could still come suddenly, totally, from friends, from family, from the most unexpected places.

"For Leslie, the heroine of this searching novel, the cost of living - and loving - is getting higher and higher. First of all, she is miserable for having lost her lover, Valerie, to another woman. And she has begun to doubt just about everything about her life. Now, she is involved in a strange erotic triangle with Honor, an adolescent virgin who has romantic ideals and Bernie, a homosexual street hustler trying to settle down. Leslie and Bernie both want Honor. They also want each other. But all Honor wants is a little spice in her life. Here is a powerful, searing novel of three young dreamers caught up in a lifestyle they can neither accept nor change."--Author's website (viewed May 1, 2023).

This novel by the young Stephen Spender was written as an experiment in 1930 but abandoned in draft and forgotten until rediscovered by a researcher. Believed to be autobiographical, it tells the story of a young English poet on vacation in Hamburg in 1929 and his response to the Weimar world.